Door-mat



UNITED STATES PA'IENT FFICE F. V. NOYES, OF MATTOON, ILLINOIS.

DGR-MAT.

Specification ferming part of Letters Patent No. 49,780, datecl September 5, 1865.

T0 all whom z't may concern Be it known thatI, F. V. NOYES, efMattoen, in the county of Celes and State of Illnois, have invented a new and useful Imprevement in Deer-Mats and I de hereby cleelare th at the fellewing is a full, elear, and exact descriptien thereof, whieh will enable others skillecl in the art te make and use the same, referenee being had te the aceempanying drawings, ferming part of this speeilieatien, in whieh Fgure 1 represents the upper surfaee of a Geer-mat made aceerding to my inventien. Fig.2 is an under sirle view thereof. Fig. 3 is an elevatieu, partly in seeton, en the line 90 of Fig. 2.

This inventien eensists in a nevel way of making door-mats by the use of a skeletenframe in whieh are insertecl eern shueks er leaves, hemp, manila, breem-eern, or any ether fibreus substance, manufaetured er unmanufaetured, the several strands being seeured in the frame by means of keys er bleeks.

A designates the upper surface of a mat made aceording te my invention. B desig nates a frame, whieh ma5 be of any suitable ferm; but the example here shewn is reetangu- 1ar. Its corners are strengthened by metal elamps er ether suitable device. The sides may be twe and a half er three inches in depth, and the frame is divided inte several divisiens by partitiens C, of like depth as the sides, and set abeut tw0 and a half inches apart.

Thecern shueks erleaves, er strands of whatever ether material may be used, are first prepared of sueh lengtl1 as te allew their ende, after being bent between the partitiens, te eeme abeve the level of the frame a 1t-tle way-that is te say, abeut ene inch, more er less, thus presenting the ends as the wearing-surfaee, after the marmer ef the strands whieh cempese the surfaee of velvet. Having laid a mass of the strands er shucks over ene of the divisions of the frame, Ipress and bend it down into the divisien by means of a thin board er strip of stuff, u, net quite se wide as the partitiens, and just leng eneugh te pass down within the sicles of the frame. The sicles of the frame may be fermed se as te appreaeh eaeh ether as they descend, and the strip a may be beveled at eaeh end, and it may be se applied te the frame as that its ends shall be loeked by the converging sicles of the frame, and thus be prevented frem passing threugh it; or a head er rim may be maclealeng the lewer inner edge of the frame te receive the ende of the strips. i/Vhen the strip a, whieh may be called a flkey er leekingpieee, has been fereed down te its plaee, it will have bent the mass of strands er leaves deuble, its height being level with the bottem of the frame, and its ends standing at right angles te the plane of the frame and rising a little way abeve its sides. Eaeh divisien is filled in the same manner, the ends of each mass of strands leeng trimmed te a uniform height after it has been seeured in its CVSOI].

When the mat beeemes weru er seiled the ke ys er aan he easily remeved by a blow when the mat is turned over, and fresl1 material eau be iuserted in the frame with little laber and at small expense. Ne strings er wres er maehnery are requirerl in putting up mats aeeerding te my inventieu, and when ene has a frame at hand ene aan always prepare a mat without eallin'g for an artisan skilled in the art of mat-making.

I claim as new and desire te secure l y Letters Patent- The methecl, substantially as abeve shewn and. deseribel, of making door-mats of the leaves er shueks of cern or any ether suitable material, manufaetured er unmanufaetured.

F. V. NOYES.

Vitnesses:

FRANCIS V. BALCH, .FRANCIS W. PALFREY. 

